NOTICE TO PARTICIPANTS REQUESTING AN IN-SERVICE WITHDRAWAL

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1 P.O. Box 2069 Woburn, MA (781) NOTICE TO PARTICIPANTS REQUESTING AN IN-SERVICE WITHDRAWAL Under the terms of the SBERA 401(k) Plan, if you were hired prior to January 1, 2000 and you are married you must complete the Spousal Consent form included in this package.

2 Savings Banks Employees Retirement Association 401(k) PLAN APPLICATION FOR HARDSHIP WITHDRAWAL Participant Name: (Please Print) Certificate No. Current Address (required) SS No. Employer's Name: Plan No. SECTION 1. AMOUNT OF REQUESTED DISTRIBUTION: $ Withdrawal Request To be completed by the employee The following are the financial needs considered immediate and hereby under IRC 401(k) regulations. Please check the item(s) that apply to your current circumstances: Medical expenses within the meaning of IRS 213(d) incurred or to be incurred by the Employee, the Employee s spouse, or any dependents of the Employee. The purchase (excluding mortgage payments) of a principal residence for the Employee. Payment of tuition and related educational fees for the next year of post-secondary education for the Employee, the Employee s spouse, children or dependents. Payments necessary to prevent the eviction of the Employee from his or her principal residence, or to prevent foreclosure on the mortgage of the Employee s principal residence. Payment for burial or funeral expenses for your spouse, parent, child or tax dependent. To pay expenses for the repair of damage to your principal residence that would qualify for the casualty deduction under Code Section 165 (determined without regard to whether the loss exceeds 10% of adjusted gross income). I hereby certify that I have one of the financial needs listed above and that I lack any other available resources or financial assets to satisfy the need and that the amount requested does not exceed the amount of the immediate and heavy financial need. Section 2. Verification of Hardship To be completed by the Employer s Representative Section 3. Tax Withholding Election I understand that I will NOT be permitted to make Elective Deferrals for a FULL 6-MONTH PERIOD following this distribution. The below-signed Employer s Plan Representative certifies that the Participant s application for hardship withdrawal has been reviewed and a financial hardship requiring withdrawal under Article 3.20 of the SBERA 401(k) Plan does in fact exist. Date: X Signature of Officer/Title (Employer s Representative) I understand that Federal law allows me to choose to withhold Federal income taxes from the amount withdrawn. The amount withheld will be 10% of the taxable portion of the distribution. Unless otherwise indicated, I authorize SBERA to withhold federal taxes. Do Not Withhold Federal Taxes (please initial here ) Also, if I am a Massachusetts resident, the distribution is subject to Massachusetts Income Tax withholding which will be withheld accordingly, if applicable. By initialing below, I hereby certify that I am not a Massachusetts resident and request that Massachusetts income tax: Not be withheld because I am not a Massachusetts resident.

3 Section 4. Required Employee s Signature Signature of Participant: X Participant s Social Security Number - - Please see Special Notice Regarding Plan Payments paragraph Additional 10% Tax if you Are Under Age 59 ½. If you request an amount in excess of what is available to withdraw, SBERA will process your request for the maximum amount available for withdrawal. The minimum amount for a hardship withdrawal is $ The check will be mailed to the address you provide on page 1. Funds that are allocated to an employer stock fund cannot be included in a hardship withdrawal. Please be sure that all information you provide is accurate. SBERA will access a $100 processing fee for checks re-issued due to participant error. If you have any questions, please contact SBERA at (781) THIS FORM MUST BE SIGNED BY AN OFFICER BEFORE YOUR REQUEST CAN BE PROCESSED. (SEE SECTION 2) RETURN THIS FORM TO: SBERA P. O. Box 2069 WOBURN, MA SBERA USE ONLY: Sate Rec d: Date Paid: Gross Amount: Check Amount: Federal Tax Amount Withheld: Massachusetts Tax Amount Withheld: Check No: By:

4 SPOUSAL CONSENT IN-SERVICE WITHDRAWAL Required for participants hired prior to January 1, 2000 only A. Spousal Consent SPOUSAL CONSENT: I, the spouse of do consent to the attached application for a participant in-service withdrawal in the sum of $. I have full knowledge of the effects of this act. I understand that this in-service withdrawal cannot be established unless I give my consent and I understand that my consent is irrevocable. I understand that by consenting to this withdrawal I may be giving up certain retirement benefits that otherwise I may receive at my spouse s death, disability or separation from service. Signature of Participant's Spouse: x B. Witnessed by Notary COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS County:, Date ss. On this day of, 200, the undersigned notary public, personally appeared, proved to me through satisfactory evidence of identification, being personally known to me, to be the person whose name is signed on this document and acknowledged to me that he/she signed it voluntarily for its stated purpose as his/her free act and deed. Notary Printed Name SEAL Commission Expires

5 SPECIAL TAX NOTICE REGARDING PLAN PAYMENTS This Special Tax Notice Applies to Distributions from Code Section 401(a) Plans, Code Section 403(a) Annuity Plans, Code Section 403(b) Tax-Sheltered Annuities and Code Section 457 Governmental Plans This Notice contains important information you will need before you decide how to receive Plan benefits. It explains when and how you can continue to defer federal income tax on your retirement savings when you receive a distribution. This Notice does not describe any state or local income tax rules (including withholding rules) that may be applicable. This Notice is provided to you because all or part of the payment that you will soon receive from one or more plans in which you participate may be eligible for rollover by you or your Plan Administrator to a Traditional IRA or an eligible employer plan. A rollover is a payment by you or the Plan Administrator of all or part of your benefit to another plan or IRA that allows you to continue to postpone taxation of that benefit until it is paid to you. An "eligible employer plan" includes a plan qualified under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, including a 401(k) plan, profit sharing plan, defined benefit plan, stock bonus plan, and money purchase plan; a Section 403(a) annuity plan; a Section 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity, and an eligible Section 457(b) plan maintained by a governmental employer (governmental 457 plan). Your payment(s) cannot be rolled over to a Roth IRA (except as described under Section IV below), SIMPLE IRA, or a Coverdell Education Savings Account (formerly known as an education IRA). Although the information in this Notice generally applies to most plan distributions, some distinctive rules relate to distributions from governmental 457 plans. For more information on unique rules applicable to these plans, see the Section Additional Information for Governmental 457 Plans. This Notice does not address distributions from 457(b) plans maintained by tax-exempt employers or 457(f) plans because distributions from such plans are not eligible for rollover. There are some special considerations before you elect to roll over your Plan benefit. First, an eligible employer plan is not legally required to accept a rollover. Before you decide to roll over your payment to another employer plan, you should find out whether the plan accepts rollovers and, if so, the types of distributions it accepts as a rollover. Even if a plan accepts rollovers, it might not accept rollovers of certain types of distributions, such as after-tax amounts. If this is the case, and your distribution includes after-tax amounts, you may want to roll your distribution over to a Traditional IRA instead or split your rollover amount between the employer plan in which you will participate and a Traditional IRA. Second, you should find out about any documents that are required to be completed before the receiving plan will accept a rollover. Finally, you should find out what limits the receiving plan will put on later distributions of your rollover account. For example, the receiving plan may restrict subsequent distributions of the rollover amount or may require your spouse's consent for any subsequent distribution. A subsequent distribution from the plan that accepts your rollover may also be subject to different tax treatment than distributions from this Plan. Check with the administrator of the plan that is to receive your rollover prior to making the rollover. You may also want to talk to your tax advisor before making any decisions. If you have additional questions after reading this Notice, you can contact your Plan Administrator. General Summary There are two ways in which you may be able to receive a Plan payment that is eligible for rollover: 1. Certain payments can be made directly to a Traditional IRA that you establish or to an eligible employer plan that will accept it and hold it for your benefit ("DIRECT ROLLOVER"); or 2. The payment can be PAID TO YOU. If you choose a DIRECT ROLLOVER: Your payment will not be taxed in the current year and no income tax will be withheld. You choose whether your payment will be made directly to your Traditional IRA or to an eligible employer plan that accepts your rollover. Your payment cannot be rolled over to a Roth IRA (except as described under Section IV below), a SIMPLE IRA, or a Coverdell Education Savings Account because these are not Traditional IRAs. The taxable portion of your payment will be taxed later when you take it out of the Traditional IRA or the eligible employer plan. Depending on the type of plan, the later distribution may be subject to different tax treatment than it would be if you received a taxable distribution from this Plan. If you choose to have a Plan payment that is eligible for rollover PAID TO YOU: You will receive only 80% of the taxable amount of the payment, because the Plan Administrator is required to withhold 20% of that amount and send it to the IRS as income tax withholding to be credited against your taxes. The taxable amount of your payment will be taxed in the current year unless you roll it over. Under limited circumstances, you may be able to use special tax rules that could reduce the tax you owe. However, if you receive the payment before age 59½, you may have to pay an additional 10% tax. You can roll over all or part of the payment by paying it to your Traditional IRA or to an eligible employer plan that accepts your rollover within sixty (60) days after you receive the payment. The amount rolled over will not be taxed until you take it out of the Traditional IRA or the eligible employer plan. If you want to roll over 100% of the payment to a Traditional IRA or an eligible employer plan, you must find other money to replace the 20% of the taxable portion that was withheld. If you roll over only the 80% that you received, you will be taxed on the 20% that was withheld and that is not rolled over. If your distribution includes designated Roth 401(k) or 403(b) contributions, special rules apply, which are described under Section IV below. If you choose not to take a distribution at this time or do not respond to this Notice: If your vested account balance is $1,000 or less, the Plan Administrator will automatically distribute your vested account balance to you subject to the withholding requirements above; no distribution will made to you without your consent if your vested account balance is greater than $1,000. If your vested account balance above includes Rollover Contributions made by you to this Plan, those Rollover Contributions will be included when determining the $1,000 amount. Also, if you elect not to take a distribution at this time, such election must be communicated to the Plan Administrator. To help achieve longterm retirement security, you should give careful consideration to the benefits of a well-balanced and diversified investment portfolio.

6 Allocating your assets among different types of investments can help you achieve a favorable rate of return, while minimizing your overall risk of losing money. In deciding how to invest your retirement savings, you should take into account all of your assets, including any retirement savings outside of the Plan. No single approach is right for everyone because, among other factors, individuals have different financial goals, different time horizons for meeting their goals, and different tolerances for risk. It is also important to periodically review your investment portfolio, your investment objectives, and the investment options under the Plan to help ensure that your retirement savings will meet your retirement goals. In making the decision as to whether or not to defer payment of your Plan benefits, it is important to consider numerous factors, including but not limited to premature distribution penalties described elsewhere in this Notice, the potential loss of investment income on a tax-deferred (or Roth tax-free) basis, the investment fees charged by this Plan versus those that will be charged by alternative investment vehicles such as rollover IRAs or other eligible retirement plans. Depending on how you invest your assets outside this Plan, you may or may not be able to invest in assets that provide higher rates of return. Administration Fees Charged to Accounts Remaining in the Plan If you do not take a distribution of your account from the Plan or fail to respond to this Notice, the administration expenses and fees that currently apply to benefit accounts under the Plan are described on Schedule A of this Special Tax Notice Regarding Plan Payments. Your Right to Waive the 30-Day Notice Period Generally, neither a DIRECT ROLLOVER nor a payment can be made from the Plan until at least thirty (30) days after your receipt of this Notice. Thus, after receiving this Notice, you have at least thirty (30) days to consider whether or not to have your withdrawal directly rolled over. If you do not wish to wait until this 30-day notice period ends before your election is processed, you may waive the notice period by making an affirmative election indicating whether or not you wish to make a DIRECT ROLLOVER. Your withdrawal will then be processed in accordance with your election as soon as practical after the Plan Administrator receives it. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PAGE I. PAYMENTS THAT CAN AND CANNOT BE ROLLED OVER 3 II. DIRECT ROLLOVER 4 IlI. PAYMENT PAID TO YOU 5 IV. SPECIAL RULES FOR DESIGNATED ROTH CONTRIBUTIONS TO 401(K) AND 403(B) ACCOUNTS 7 V. SURVIVING SPOUSES, ALTERNATE PAYEES, AND OTHER BENEFICIARIES 10

7 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I. PAYMENTS THAT CAN AND CANNOT BE ROLLED OVER Payments from the Plan may be eligible rollover distributions. This means that they can be rolled over to a Traditional IRA or to an eligible employer plan that accepts rollovers. Payments from a plan cannot be rolled over to a Roth IRA (except as described below), a SIMPLE IRA, or a Coverdell Education Savings Account. Your Plan Administrator should be able to tell you what portion of your payment is an eligible rollover distribution. After-tax Contributions and Roth 401(k) Deferrals After-tax contributions included in a payment are not taxed. If a payment is only part of your benefit, an allocable portion of your after-tax contributions is included in the payment, so that you cannot take a payment of only after-tax contributions. However, if you have pre-1987 after-tax contributions maintained in a separate account, a special rule may apply to determine whether the after-tax contributions are included in a payment. If you made after-tax contributions to the Plan, these contributions may be rolled into either a Traditional IRA, a Roth IRA, or to certain employer plans that accept rollovers of the after-tax contributions. The following rules apply: 1. Rollover into a Traditional IRA or Roth IRA. You can roll over your after-tax contributions to a Traditional IRA either directly or indirectly. Your Plan Administrator should be able to tell you how much of your payment is the taxable portion and how much is the after-tax portion. You may roll over to an IRA a payment that includes after-tax contributions through either a DIRECT ROLLOVER or a 60-day rollover. You must keep track of the aggregate amount of the after-tax contributions in all of your IRAs (in order to determine your taxable income for later payments from the IRAs). If you do a DIRECT ROLLOVER of only a portion of the amount paid from the Plan and at the same time the rest is paid to you, the portion directly rolled over consists first of the amount that would be taxable if not rolled over. For example, assume you are receiving a distribution of $12,000, of which $2,000 is aftertax contributions. If you directly roll over $10,000 to an IRA that is not a Roth IRA, no amount is taxable because the $2,000 amount not directly rolled over is treated as being after-tax contributions. If you do a DIRECT ROLLOVER of the entire amount paid from the Plan to two or more destinations at the same time, you can choose which destination receives the after-tax contributions. If you do a 60-day rollover to an IRA of only a portion of a payment made to you, the after-tax contributions are treated as rolled over last. For example, assume you are receiving a distribution of $12,000 of which $2,000 is after-tax contributions and no part of the distribution is directly rolled over. If you roll over $10,000 to an IRA that is not a Roth IRA in a 60-day rollover, no amount is taxable because the $2,000 amount not rolled over is treated as being aftertax contributions. You may roll over to an employer plan all of a payment that includes after-tax contributions but only through a DIRECT ROLLOVER (and only if the receiving plan separately accounts for after-tax contributions and is not a governmental Code Section 457(b) plan). You can do a 60-day rollover to an employer plan of part of a payment that includes after-tax contributions, but only up to the amount of payment that would be taxable if not rolled over. See Section IV for rollovers of Roth 401(k) Deferrals to a Roth IRA. 2. Rollover into an Employer Plan. You can roll over after-tax contributions from an employer plan that is qualified under Code Section 401(a) or a Section 403(a) annuity plan or a 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity to another such plan using a DIRECT ROLLOVER only if the other plan provides separate accounting for amounts rolled over, including separate accounting for the after-tax employee contributions and earnings on those contributions. You can also roll over after-tax contributions from a Section 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity to another Section 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity, 401(a) or 403(a) plan using a DIRECT ROLLOVER if the other tax-sheltered annuity or plan provides separate accounting for amounts rolled over, including separate accounting for the after-tax employee contributions and earnings on those contributions. You cannot roll over after-tax contributions to a governmental 457 plan. If you want to roll over your after-tax contributions to an employer plan that accepts these rollovers, you cannot have the after-tax contributions paid to you first. You must instruct the Plan Administrator of this Plan to make a DIRECT ROLLOVER on your behalf. Also, you cannot first roll over after-tax contributions to a Traditional IRA and then roll over that amount into an employer plan. You may roll over an eligible rollover distribution that consists of Roth 401(k) Deferrals (and earnings) only to another qualified plan (including a defined benefit plan by DIRECT ROLLOVER) or to a Roth 403(b) plan by DIRECT ROLLOVER, provided the qualified plan or the Roth 403(b) plan accepts such rollover and agrees to provide separate accounting for those amounts rolled over (including separate accounting for Roth 401(k) Deferrals and the earnings on those deferrals). Your period of participation under the distributing plan is carried over to the recipient plan for purposes of determining whether you satisfy the 5-year requirement for qualified distributions from the recipient plan. You may also roll over Roth 401(k) Deferrals to a Roth IRA either by a DIRECT ROLLOVER or by a 60-day rollover. In any of these DIRECT ROLLOVERS, the distribution may, but need not be deemed, a qualified Roth distribution (see Section IV, Special Rules for Designated Roth Contributions to 401(k) and 403(b) Accounts). In the case of a rollover from a designated Roth account under a 401(k) or 403(b) plan to a Roth IRA, the period that the rolled-over funds were in the designated Roth 401(k) or 403(b) account does not count towards the 5-year period for determining qualified distributions from a Roth IRA. However, if you established a Roth IRA in a prior year, the 5-year period for determining qualified distributions from a Roth IRA that began as a result of your earlier Roth IRA contribution applies to any distributions from the Roth IRA, including a distribution of an amount that was attributable to a rollover contribution from a designated Roth contribution account. 3. In-Plan Roth Rollovers. If your plan permits, distributions made to plan participants or beneficiaries after September 27, 2010 from a plan that permits Roth Elective Deferrals may be rolled from a non-roth account to a Roth account known as an In-Plan Roth Rollover. An amount is eligible for an In-Plan Roth Rollover only if the employer s plan has elected to provide for such rollovers. An In-Plan Roth Rollover may be accomplished by a DIRECT ROLLOVER or by a distribution of funds to the participant who, within sixty (60) days from the date of distribution, rolls such distribution back to a Roth account within the same plan. For more information, see Section IV Special Rules for Designated Roth Contributions to 401(k) and 403(b) Accounts. 4. Extension of 60-day Rollover Deadline. Generally, the 60-day rollover deadline cannot be extended. However, the IRS has the limited authority to waive the deadline under certain extraordinary circumstances, such as when external events prevent you from completing the rollover by the 60-day rollover deadline. To apply for a waiver, you must file a private letter ruling request with the IRS. Private letter ruling requests require the payment of a nonrefundable user fee. For more information, see IRS Publication 590-A, Contributions to Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs). 5. Distributions of Employer Stock. If you do not do a rollover, you can apply a special rule to payments of employer stock (or other employer securities) that are either attributable to after-tax contributions or paid in a lump sum after separation from service (or after age 59½, disability, or the participant s death). Under the special rule, the net unrealized appreciation on the stock will not be taxed when distributed from the Plan and will be taxed at capital gain rates when you sell the stock. Net unrealized appreciation is generally the increase in the value of employer stock after it was acquired by the Plan. If you do a rollover for a payment that includes employer stock (for example, by selling the stock and rolling over the proceeds within sixty (60) days of the payment), the

8 special rule relating to the distributed employer stock will not apply to any subsequent payments from the IRA or employer plan. The Plan Administrator can tell you the amount of any net unrealized appreciation. The following types of payments cannot be rolled over: 1. Payments Spread Over Long Periods. You cannot roll over a payment if it is part of a series of equal (or almost equal) installment payments that are made at least once a year and that will last for: Your lifetime (or a period measured by your life expectancy), or Your lifetime and your beneficiary's lifetime (or a period measured by your joint life expectancies), or A period of ten (10) years or more. 2. Required Minimum Payments. Beginning when you reach age 70½ or retire, whichever is later, a certain portion of your payment cannot be rolled over because it is a "required minimum payment" that must be paid to you. Special rules apply if you own more than 5% of your Employer. 3. Hardship Distributions. A hardship distribution cannot be rolled over. 4. ESOP Dividends. Cash dividends paid to you on employer stock held in an employee stock ownership plan cannot be rolled over. 5. Corrective Distributions. A distribution that is made to correct a failed nondiscrimination test or because legal limits on certain contributions were exceeded cannot be rolled over. 6. Loans Treated as Distributions. The amount of a plan loan that becomes a taxable deemed distribution because of a default cannot be rolled over. However, a loan-offset amount is eligible for rollover, as discussed in Section II below. Ask the Plan Administrator of this Plan if distribution of your loan qualifies for rollover treatment. 7. Life Insurance. The cost of life insurance paid by the Plan. 8. Return of Automatic Enrollment Contributions. Certain automatic enrollment contributions requested to be withdrawn within ninety (90) days of the first contribution cannot be rolled over. 9. ESOPs. Amounts treated as distributed because of a prohibited allocation of S corporation stock under an ESOP (also, there will generally be adverse tax consequences if you roll over a distribution of S corporation stock to an IRA). The Plan Administrator of this Plan should be able to tell you if your payment includes amounts which cannot be rolled over. II. DIRECT ROLLOVER A DIRECT ROLLOVER is a direct payment of the amount of your Plan benefits to a Traditional IRA or an eligible employer plan that will accept it. You can choose a DIRECT ROLLOVER of all or any portion of your payment that is an eligible rollover distribution, as described above. You are not taxed on any taxable portion of your payment for which you choose a DIRECT ROLLOVER until you later take it out of the Traditional IRA or eligible employer plan. In addition, no income tax withholding is required for any taxable portion of your Plan benefits for which you choose a DIRECT ROLLOVER. This Plan might not let you choose a DIRECT ROLLOVER if your distributions for the year are less than $200. If a portion of your payment is from a designated Roth 401(k) or 403(b) account (as described under Section IV below), the Plan may treat the Roth account portion of your payment as a separate distribution for purposes of the $200 rule to determine amounts that are not rollover eligible. Other special rules apply if your distribution includes designated Roth contributions in a 401(k) or 403(b) plan. Refer to Section IV below for a discussion of the tax rules that apply to such accumulations. Direct Rollover to a Traditional IRA You can open a Traditional IRA to receive the DIRECT ROLLOVER. If you choose to have your payment made directly to a Traditional IRA, contact an IRA sponsor (usually a financial institution) to find out how to have your payment made in a DIRECT ROLLOVER to a Traditional IRA at that institution. If you are unsure of how to invest your money, you can temporarily establish a Traditional IRA to receive the payment. However, in choosing a Traditional IRA, you may wish to make sure that the Traditional IRA you choose will allow you to move all or a part of your payment to another Traditional IRA at a later date, without penalties or other limitations. See IRS Publication 590, Individual Retirement Arrangements, for more information on Traditional IRAs (including limits on how often you can roll over between IRAs). Direct Rollover to a Plan If you are employed by a new employer that sponsors an eligible employer plan, and you want a DIRECT ROLLOVER to that plan, ask the plan administrator of that plan whether it will accept your rollover. An eligible employer plan is not legally required to accept a rollover. Even if your new employer's plan does not accept a rollover, you still can choose a DIRECT ROLLOVER to a Traditional IRA. If the employer plan accepts your rollover, the plan may provide restrictions on the circumstances under which you may later receive a distribution of the rollover amount or may require spousal consent to any subsequent distribution. Check with the plan administrator of that plan before making your decision. In-Plan Roth Rollovers If so elected by the employer, distributions made to plan participants or beneficiaries after September 27, 2010 from a plan that permits Roth Elective Deferrals may be rolled from a non-roth account to a Roth account known as an In-Plan Roth Rollover. An amount is eligible for an In-Plan Roth Rollover only if the employer s plan has elected to provide for such rollovers. An In-Plan Roth Rollover may be accomplished by a DIRECT ROLLOVER or by a distribution of funds to the participant who, within sixty (60) days from the date of distribution, rolls such distribution back to a Roth account within the same plan. For more information, see Section IV Special Rules for Designated Roth Contributions to 401(k) and 403(b) Accounts. Direct Rollover of a Series of Payments If you receive a payment that can be rolled over to a Traditional IRA or an eligible employer plan that will accept it, and it is paid in a series of payments for less than ten (10) years, your choice to make or not make a DIRECT ROLLOVER for a payment will apply to all later payments in the series until you change your election. You are free to change your election for any later payment in the series.

9 Change in Tax Treatment Resulting from a Direct Rollover The tax treatment of any payment from the eligible employer plan or Traditional IRA receiving your DIRECT ROLLOVER might be different than if you received your benefit in a taxable distribution directly from the Plan. For example, if you were born before January 1, 1936, you might be entitled to 10-year averaging or capital gain treatment, as explained below. However, if you have your benefit rolled over to a Section 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity, a governmental 457 plan, or a DIRECT ROLLOVER to a Traditional IRA, your benefit will no longer be eligible for that special treatment. See the sections below entitled "Additional 10% Tax if You Are Under Age 59½" and "Special Tax Treatment if You Were Born Before January 1, 1936." III. PAYMENT PAID TO YOU If your payment can be rolled over (see Section II above) and the payment is made to you in cash, it is subject to 20% federal income tax withholding on the taxable portion (state tax withholding may also apply). The payment is taxed in the year you receive it unless, within sixty (60) days, you roll it over to a Traditional IRA or an eligible employer plan that accepts rollovers. If you do not roll it over, special tax rules may apply. Special rules apply if your distribution includes designated Roth contributions to a 401(k) or 403(b) plan. Refer to Section IV below for a discussion of the tax rules that apply to such accumulations. Income Tax Withholding If you request a distribution of your Plan account, see Schedule A of this Special Tax Notice Regarding Plan Payments for further information on the processing fee that will be charged to cover the cost of your request. Mandatory Withholding. If any portion of your payment can be rolled over under Section II above, and you do not elect to make a DIRECT ROLLOVER, the Plan is required by law to withhold 20% of the taxable amount. This amount is sent to the IRS as federal income tax withholding. For example, if you can roll over a taxable payment of $10,000 but choose to take the distribution in cash instead, only $8,000 will be paid to you because the Plan must withhold $2,000 as income tax. However, when you prepare your income tax return for the year, unless you make a rollover within sixty (60) days (see "60-Day Rollover Option" below), you must report the full $10,000 as a taxable payment from the Plan. You must report the $2,000 as tax withheld, and it will be credited against any income tax you owe for the year. There will be no income tax withholding if your payments for the year are less than $200. If a portion of your payment is from designated Roth contributions in a 401(k) or 403(b) account (as described under Section IV below), the Plan may treat the Roth account portion of your payment as a separate distribution when applying this $200 threshold. Furthermore, the portion of the distribution that is from a Roth account that is distributed to you on a tax-free basis will not be included in the amount of the distribution subject to withholding. Voluntary Withholding. If any portion of your payment is taxable but cannot be rolled over under Section II above, the mandatory withholding rules described above do not apply. In this case, you may elect not to have withholding apply to that portion. If you do nothing, 10% of the taxable amount will generally be taken out of this portion of your payment for federal income tax withholding. To elect out of withholding, ask the Plan Administrator for the election form and related information. 60-Day Rollover Option. If you receive a payment that can be rolled over under Section II above, you can still decide to roll over all or part of it to a Traditional IRA or to an eligible employer plan that accepts rollovers. If you decide to roll it over, you must contribute the amount of the payment you received to a Traditional IRA or eligible employer plan within sixty (60) days after you receive the payment. The portion of your payment that is rolled over will not be taxed until you take it out of the Traditional IRA or the eligible employer plan. You can roll over up to 100% of your payment that can be rolled over under Section II above, including an amount equal to the 20% of the taxable portion that was withheld. If you choose to roll over 100%, you must find other money within the 60-day period to contribute to the Traditional IRA or the eligible employer plan, to replace the 20% that was withheld. On the other hand, if you roll over only the 80% of the taxable portion that you received, you will be taxed on the 20% that was withheld. Example: The taxable portion of your payment that can be rolled over under Section II above is $10,000, and you choose to have it paid to you. You will receive $8,000, and $2,000 will be sent to the IRS as income tax withholding. Within sixty (60) days after receiving the $8,000, you may roll over the entire $10,000 to a Traditional IRA or to an eligible employer plan. To do this, you roll over the $8,000 you received from the Plan, and you will have to find $2,000 from other sources (your savings, a loan, etc.). In this case, the entire $10,000 is not taxed until you take it out of the Traditional IRA or an eligible employer plan. If you roll over the entire $10,000, when you file your income tax return, you may get a refund of part or all of the $2,000 withheld. If, on the other hand, you roll over only $8,000, the $2,000 you did not roll over is taxed in the year it was withheld. When you file your income tax return, you may get a refund of part of the $2,000 withheld. (However, any refund is likely to be larger, if you roll over the entire $10,000. Also, the amount of any tax refund depends on the total income taxes you owe for the year on all income and the amount you have withheld during the year on all income.) Special rules apply if your distribution includes designated Roth contributions to a 401(k) or 403(b) plan. Refer to Section IV below for a discussion of the tax rules that apply to such accumulations. Additional 10% Tax if You Are Under Age 59½. If you receive a payment before you reach age 59½ and you do not roll it over, then, in addition to the regular income tax, you may have to pay an extra tax equal to 10% of the taxable portion of the payment. The additional 10% tax generally does not apply to (1) payments that are paid after you separate from service with your Employer during or after the year you reach age 55, (2) payments that are paid because you retire due to disability, (3) payments that are paid as equal (or almost equal) payments over your life or life expectancy (or you and your beneficiary's lives or life expectancies), (4) dividends paid with respect to stock by an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) as described in Code Section 404(k), (5) payments that are paid directly to the government to satisfy a federal tax levy, (6) payments that are paid to an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order (or state domestic relations order generally applicable to governmental or church plans), (7) payments that do not exceed the amount of your deductible medical expenses, (8) certain payments that are paid while you are on active military duty after September 11, 2001, provided you were called to duty for more than 179 days, (9) certain payments that are paid to you from a governmental defined benefit plan, provided you are a public safety employee and are at least age 50, (10) payments of certain automatic enrollment contributions requested to be withdrawn within ninety (90) days of the first contribution, (11) payments after your death, (12) corrective distributions of contributions that exceed tax-law limitations, and (13) the cost of life insurance paid by the Plan. See IRS Form 5329 for more information on the additional 10% tax. Special Tax Treatment if You Were Born Before January 1, If you receive a payment from a plan qualified under Section 401(a) or a Section 403(a) annuity plan that can be rolled over under Section II and you do not roll it over to a Traditional IRA or an eligible employer plan, the payment will be taxed in the year you receive it. However, if the payment qualifies as a lump sum distribution, it may be eligible for special tax treatment. (See IRS Publication 575, Pension

10 and Annuity Income for a full explanation.) A lump sum distribution is a payment within one year of your entire balance under the Plan (and certain other similar plans of the employer) that is payable to you after you have reached age 59½ or because you have separated from service with your Employer (or, in the case of a self-employed individual, after you have reached age 59½ or have become disabled). For a payment to be treated as a lump sum distribution, you must have been a participant in the plan for at least five (5) years before the year in which you received the distribution. The special tax treatment for lump sum distributions that may be available to you is described below. 10-Year Averaging. If you receive a lump sum distribution and you were born before January 1, 1936, you can make a one-time election to figure the tax on the payment by using "ten-year averaging" (using 1986 tax rates). Ten-year averaging often reduces the tax you owe. Capital Gain Treatment. If you receive a lump sum distribution and you were born before January 1, 1936, and you were a participant in the Plan before 1974, you may elect to have the part of your payment that is attributable to your pre-1974 participation in the Plan taxed as long-term capital gain at a rate of 20%. There are other limits on the special tax treatment for lump sum distributions. For example, you can generally elect this special tax treatment only once in your lifetime, and the election applies to all lump sum distributions that you receive in that same year. You may not elect this special tax treatment if you rolled amounts into this Plan from a 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity contract, a governmental 457 plan, or from an IRA not originally attributable to a qualified employer plan. If you have previously rolled over a distribution from this Plan (or certain other similar plans of the employer), you cannot use this special averaging treatment for later payments from the Plan. If you roll over your payment to a Traditional IRA, governmental 457 plan, or 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity, you will not be able to use special tax treatment for later payments from that IRA, plan, or annuity. Also, if you roll over only a portion of your payment to a Traditional IRA, governmental 457 plan, or 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity, this special tax treatment is not available for the rest of the payment. Employer Stock or Securities. There is a special rule for a payment from the Plan that includes employer stock (or other employer securities). To use this special rule, 1) the payment must qualify as a lump sum distribution, as described above, except that you do not need five (5) years of Plan participation, or 2) the employer stock included in the payment must be attributable to after-tax employee contributions, if any. Under this special rule, you may have the option of not paying tax on the "net unrealized appreciation" of the stock until you sell the stock. Net unrealized appreciation generally is the increase in the value of the employer stock while it was held by the Plan. For example, if employer stock was contributed to your Plan account when the stock was worth $1,000 but the stock was worth $1,200 when you received it, you would not have to pay tax on the $200 increase in value until you later sold the stock. You may instead elect not to have the special rule apply to the net unrealized appreciation. In this case, your net unrealized appreciation will be taxed in the year you receive the stock, unless you roll over the stock. The stock can be rolled over to a Traditional IRA or another eligible employer plan, either in a DIRECT ROLLOVER or a rollover that you make yourself. Generally, you will no longer be able to use the special rule for net unrealized appreciation if you roll the stock over to a Traditional IRA or another eligible employer plan. If you receive only employer stock in a payment that can be rolled over, no amount will be withheld from the payment. If you receive cash or property other than employer stock, as well as employer stock, in a payment that can be rolled over, the 20% withholding amount will be based on the entire taxable amount paid to you (including the value of the employer stock determined by excluding the net unrealized appreciation). However, the amount withheld will be limited to the cash or property (excluding employer stock) paid to you. If you receive employer stock in a payment that qualifies as a lump sum distribution, the special tax treatment for lump sum distributions described above (such as 10-year averaging) also may apply. Special rules apply if your distribution includes designated Roth contributions to a 401(k) or 403(b) plan. Refer to Section IV below for a discussion of the tax rules that apply to such accumulations. Distributions for Health and Long-Term Care Insurance If the Plan is a governmental plan, you retired as a public safety officer, and your retirement was by reason of disability or was after normal retirement age, you can exclude from your taxable income plan payments paid directly as premiums to an accident or health plan (or a qualified long-term care insurance contract) that your employer maintains for you, your spouse, or your dependents, up to a maximum of $3,000 annually. For this purpose, a public safety officer is a law enforcement officer, firefighter, chaplain, or member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew. Governmental 457 Plans Unforeseeable Emergency Distributions. A distribution on account of an unforeseeable emergency cannot be rolled over. An unforeseeable emergency is limited to a severe financial hardship resulting from a sudden and unexpected illness or accident or a loss of property due to casualty or similar extraordinary and unforeseeable circumstances. Such events must result from circumstances beyond your control. For example, an unforeseeable emergency must cause a hardship that cannot be relieved through reimbursement or compensation by insurance, liquidation of assets (unless such liquidation would cause a severe financial hardship), or a cessation of all contributions to the 457 plan. Payment of college expenses or purchase of a home does not qualify as an unforeseeable emergency. Distribution of Excess Contributions. A distribution that is made because legal limits on certain contributions were exceeded cannot be rolled over. Change in Tax Treatment Resulting from a DIRECT ROLLOVER. The tax treatment of any payment from the eligible employer plan or Traditional IRA receiving your DIRECT ROLLOVER might be different than if you received your benefit in a taxable distribution directly from the governmental 457 plan. See the Additional 10% Tax May Apply to Certain Distributions. Additional 10% Tax May Apply to Certain Distributions. Distributions from the governmental 457(b) plan are generally not subject to the additional 10% tax that applies to pre-age 59½ distributions from other types of plans. However, any distribution from such plan that is attributable to an amount you rolled over to the Plan (adjusted for investment returns) from another type of eligible employer plan or IRA amount is subject to the additional 10% tax if it is distributed to you before you reach age 59½, unless an exception applies. Exceptions to the additional 10% tax generally include (1) payments that are paid as equal (or almost equal) payments over your life or life expectancy (or you and your beneficiary s lives or life expectancies), (2) payments that are paid from an eligible employer plan after you separate from service with your Employer during or after the year you reach 55, (3) payments that are paid because you retire due to disability, (4) payments that are paid directly to the government to satisfy a federal tax levy, (5) payments that are paid to an alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, or (6) payments that do not exceed the amount of your deductible medical expenses. If you are a surviving spouse, an alternate payee, or another beneficiary, your payment is generally not subject to the additional 10% tax described above, even if you are younger than age 59½. These exceptions may be different for distributions from a Traditional IRA. See IRS Form 5329 for more information on the additional 10% tax.

11 IV. SPECIAL RULES FOR DESIGNATED ROTH CONTRIBUTIONS TO 401(K) AND 403(B) ACCOUNTS In-Plan Roth Rollovers If your plan permits, distributions made to plan participants or beneficiaries after September 27, 2010 from a plan that permits Roth Elective Deferrals may be rolled from a non-roth account to a Roth known as an In-Plan Roth Rollover. An amount is eligible for an In-Plan Roth Rollover only if the employer s plan has elected to provide for such rollovers. An In-Plan Roth Rollover may be accomplished by a DIRECT ROLLOVER or by a distribution of funds to the participant who, within sixty (60) days from the date of distribution, rolls such distribution back to a Roth account within the same plan. Any vested amount held in a participant s account (other than amounts held in a designated Roth account) is eligible for an In-Plan Roth Rollover to a designated Roth account in the same plan. Your Plan may provide for a special withdrawal option which is only available if you are electing an In-Plan Roth Rollover, in which case the other rollover information in this Notice is not applicable to that withdrawal. Once a participant elects an In-Plan Roth Rollover, such amounts may not be reconverted back to pre-tax status. The taxable amount of an In-Plan Roth Rollover will be included in a participant s gross income equal to the fair market value of the distribution, reduced by any basis the participant has in the distribution. If the distribution includes employer securities attributable to Employee contributions, the fair market value includes any net unrealized appreciation within the meaning of Code Section 402(e)(4). If an outstanding loan is rolled over in an In-Plan Roth Rollover, the amount includible in gross income is the balance of the loan. In-Plan Roth Rollovers will not be subject to the 10% additional tax on early distribution unless the participant receives a distribution from the Roth Rollover account within the 5-year period that begins on January 1 of the year of the rollover. In-Plan Roth Rollovers will not be subject to the 20% mandatory withholding of Code Section 3405(c). However, a participant may elect to increase his or her withholding or make estimated tax payments to avoid an underpayment penalty. An In-Plan Roth Rollover may be elected by a beneficiary provided such beneficiary is a surviving spouse and by an alternate payee only if he or she is a spouse or former spouse. An In-Plan Roth Rollover will not be treated as a distribution for purposes of changing any loan repayment schedule or creating a new loan; obtaining spousal consent relating to annuities and distribution of amounts in excess of $5,000 as described by Code Section 401(a)(11); or the rules regarding the elimination of optional forms of benefit under Code Section 411(d)(6)(B)(ii). Participants who had a distribution right (such as a right to an immediate distribution of the amount rolled over) prior to the rollover may not have this right eliminated through an In-Plan Roth Rollover. Treatment of Qualified Distributions If you have made designated Roth contributions to the Plan, the amounts (both contributions and earnings) held in your designated Roth contribution account may be distributed tax-free if it is a "qualified distribution." A "qualified distribution" is a distribution that is made after at least five (5) years have elapsed from the start of the year during which you made your first Roth contribution to the Plan and is distributed: 1. after you attain age 59½; 2. to your beneficiary after your death; or 3. on account of your disability. If the payment from the Plan is a qualified distribution, you will not be taxed on any part of the payment even if you do not do a rollover. If you do a rollover, you will not be taxed on the amount you roll over and any earnings on the amount you roll over will not be taxed if paid later in a qualified distribution. A qualified distribution from a designated Roth account in the Plan is a payment made after you are age 59½ (or after your death or disability) and after you have had a designated Roth account in the Plan for at least five (5) years. In applying the 5-year rule, you count from January 1 of the year your first contribution was made to the designated Roth account. However, if you did a DIRECT ROLLOVER to a designated Roth account in the Plan from a designated Roth account in another employer plan, your participation will count from January 1 of the year your first contribution was made to the designated Roth account in the Plan or, if earlier, to the designated Roth account in the other employer plan. You may roll over the payment to either a Roth IRA (a Roth individual retirement account or Roth individual retirement annuity) or a designated Roth account in an employer plan (a tax-qualified plan or section 403(b) plan) that will accept the rollover. The rules of the Roth IRA or employer plan that holds the rollover will determine your investment options, fees, and rights to payment from the Roth IRA or employer plan (for example, no spousal consent rules apply to Roth IRAs and Roth IRAs may not provide loans). Further, the amount rolled over will become subject to the tax rules that apply to the Roth IRA or the designated Roth account in the employer plan. In general, these tax rules are similar to those described elsewhere in this Notice, but differences include: If you do a rollover to a Roth IRA, all of your Roth IRAs will be considered for purposes of determining whether you have satisfied the 5-year rule (counting from January 1 of the year for which your first contribution was made to any of your Roth IRAs). If you do a rollover to a Roth IRA, you will not be required to take a distribution from the Roth IRA during your lifetime and you must keep track of the aggregate amount of the after-tax contributions in all of your Roth IRAs (in order to determine your taxable income for later Roth IRA payments that are not qualified distributions). Eligible rollover distributions from a Roth IRA can only be rolled over to another Roth IRA. There are two ways to do a rollover. You can either do a DIRECT ROLLOVER or a 60-day rollover. If you do a DIRECT ROLLOVER, the Plan will make the payment directly to your Roth IRA or designated Roth account in an employer plan. You should contact the Roth IRA sponsor or the administrator of the employer plan for information on how to do a DIRECT ROLLOVER. If you do a DIRECT ROLLOVER of only a portion of the amount paid from the Plan and a portion is paid to you at the same time, the portion directly rolled over consists first of earnings. If you wish to do a rollover, you may roll over all or part of the amount eligible for rollover. Any payment from the Plan is eligible for rollover, except as those noted at Section I of this Notice. The Plan Administrator or the payor can tell you what portion of a payment is eligible for rollover.